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discussed in biography

Italian political writer, literary critic, and poet, remembered for his mock-heroic satiric poem
La secchia rapita (
The Rape of the Bucket), the earliest and, according to most critics, the best of many Italian works in that genre.

role in Italian literature

...attacked in seven satires the vices and shortcomings of the age. The Modenese Alessandro Tassoni acquired great fame with
La secchia rapita (1622;
The Rape of the Bucket), a mock-heroic poem that is both an epic and a personal satire. The most serious poet of the period was Tommaso Campanella, a Dominican friar, who spent most of his...